Writing support for current undergraduate students
The UC Davis Writing Center supports undergraduate students across all majors, experience levels, and stages of the writing process as they develop their writing voice, confidence, and sense of themselves as writers. We work with students to help them make purposeful choices about audience, tone, and structure, and to understand writing expectations across different classes and disciplines.
Current undergraduates can get support on:
- Course Assignments/Projects
- Personal statements
- Grant and fellowship applications
- Professional documents, like resumes and cover letters
- Longer projects, like honors theses or other capstone projects
- Research posters and oral presentations
Graduate school applications
In one-on-one sessions, students can brainstorm ideas, strengthen claims, synthesize sources, expand and refine arguments and polish final drafts. Consultants can also help break down assignment prompts and interpret instructor feedback. Peer consultants support students as they navigate new writing situations and genres, offering strategies to manage writing-related anxiety and build sustainable writing practices.
Writing Center peer consultants are UC Davis students who represent majors and programs from across campus. They receive ongoing training informed by writing center studies and current research on how writers learn. As nonjudgmental peers, consultants collaborate with writers through conversation, questions and feedback.
Current undergraduate students are supported via
- One-on-one consulting - 50-minute sessions, in person or online
- Drop-in consulting - brief, in-person meetings that are useful for quick feedback on finalized drafts or citations
- Writing partnerships (recurring appointments with the same consultant)
- Workshops
- Writing groups
- Group and individual study space